Backend Engineer, Isometric
£60-80k
+ Equity
3+ days a week in office
Carbon removal standard and registry
Open for applications
Carbon removal standard and registry
21-100 employees
Open for applications
£60-80k
+ Equity
3+ days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
Isometric's mission is to avert climate disaster by ensuring the transition to carbon removal happens responsibly and fast.
Role
Who you are
- 2-5 years of backend software development. A STEM background is advantageous. Our backend is built with strongly typed Python, serves both REST and GraphQL APIs and runs on Google Cloud Platform. We’re happy to work with people with experience in all, any or none of the tools and technologies in our stack
- A collaborative mindset, preferring open communication and teamwork to get stuff done. Our engineers are product-minded and come with diverse backgrounds—from writing the first line of code at day 0 start-ups, to building high scale systems at companies like Meta, Amazon or Shopify
- An eagerness and curiosity to learn new things and ask questions. We are science-driven and expect everyone to get stuck into the climate world
What the job involves
- Work in a squad of 3-4 engineers within a trusting, supportive environment. Take ownership and accountability for getting stuff done. Follow through on tech decisions, we don’t do half-migrations
- Collaborate with Product and our expert team of Carbon Removal Scientists to deliver high-quality, well-tested code at pace. Build without silos, launch features, build infrastructure and care about our customers
- Impact a new industry of critical importance. Gain external exposure, working directly with companies removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
Salary benchmarks
Our take
UK-based Isometric is building a critical infrastructure to facilitate the scaling of the carbon removal market which is attempting to reverse climate change, arguably the biggest existential threat to modern civilisation.
The company aims to bring transparency to the carbon dioxide removal industry by building rigorous measurement and verification technology to confirm that carbon removal claims are true.
A very green company in its early stages, Isometric is also well positioned for future growth when looking at its CEO's track record: Eamon Jubbawy co-founded and scaled a tech company to over $100M of revenue in just a few years.
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Funding (1 round)
Jul 2023
$25m
Seed
Total funding: $25m
Company benefits
- Holiday allowance: 25 days plus public holidays
- No meeting Tuesdays: Focus is a must-have to do the best work of your career. We create space to ensure it can happen.
- 3 days in the office: We find a few days together makes a huge difference in how fast we move right now.
- Working from home hardware: We want you to be well set up to work effectively from home. You can select your ideal set up from our list of recommendations.
- Learning & development: We aren't about a standard budget and blanket training. We offer time, funds, and coaching - and team members define the what, how and when.
- Weekly team lunch: We prioritise time together to make sure we are building strong, trusting relationships to do our best work.
Company values
- The world can’t wait: Reducing the amount of carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere is critical. The world can’t wait for the product we’re building. We have to move fast. Tackling such a momentous challenge isn’t easy. So our team exudes good energy. We’re persistent and resilient. We always ask ‘how can it be done?’ over ‘can it be done?’. For us, optimism is self-fulfilling.
- Rigor: We prize rigor. We have relentlessly high standards for ourselves. We work whole-heartedly and single-mindedly. Problem solving at Isometric follows the scientific method. Before jumping into any task, we first define the intended result. We gather and analyze available data, uncover bad assumptions, make hypotheses about how the outcome might be achieved—then run experiments to complete the loop. All our actions are grounded in first principles thinking and emotional control.
- Good words: The best communicators usually win. So we’re intentional about our writing. We work to keep it clear, engaging and thorough. We’re also disciplined about tooling, information architecture and documentation. All three are superpowers when executed well. We think that frank communication leads to better decision making. We trust each other to be direct and give a lot of context—and we expect a high level of integrity as a result.
Company HQ
Fitzrovia, London, UK
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Leadership
Eamon Jubbawy
(CEO)Co-founded a number of companies, including Onfido (where they spent 8 years as COO), Sequence, and Safi (formerly TrueCircle).
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Isometric
- Our approach to DEI is driven, through openness and compassion, by the real needs of individuals.
- Our goals are for people to come to work, fully as themselves, speak their minds, even when their opinions are contrary and feedback with compassion and flexibility to any member of the team.
- Hiring. Making the process as meritocratic as possible in terms of assessment, and building in flexibility.
- Culture and ways of working. For example, by using pre-reads, clear meeting objectives and agendas to allow people with different styles to participate fully.
- Reward. Making compensation decisions highly algorithmic and working towards a place where pay is transparent.
- We meet regularly to share ideas, create plans and learn lessons from things that have happened.
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